LESSON PLAN

GROUPS: beginners, elementary

TIMING: 100’
NO OF STUDENTS: ~ 30 10 students from each group (3 teams)
TYPE OF LESSON: consolidation
TITLE OF LESSON: A HALLOWEEN TO REMEMBER

TOPIC: talking about celebrations, customs, traditions

VOCABULARY: words related to Halloween
FUNCTIONS: expressing positive and negative opinions

AIMS: during the lesson, the students will:

 Reinforce thematic vocabulary related to Halloween
 Speak about traditions, expressing their own opinions

OBJECTIVES: at the end of the lesson, the students will be able to:
 Ask for opinion and give positive or negative opinion
 Discuss freely about traditions in the British and American cultures

ANTICIPATED PROBLEMS: I anticipated the following problems:

 Students show lack of interest for other’s opinions

TEACHING TECHNIQUES: brainstorming, personalized questions, crosswords,

elicitation, comprehension questions, presentation

INTERACTION: individual work, team work

SKILLS: speaking, reading, writing, vocabulary

MATERIALS: video projector, worksheets, posters, markers, CD player, pictures about

Halloween, funky costumes (ghosts, skeletons, witches), pumpkins, apples, candles,
drawings, flashcards

NOTES:
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 INTERACTION MATERIAL TIMING NOTES
NO STAGES OF THE ACTIVITIES REASON FOR THE
LESSON TEACHER & STUDENTS ACTIVITY
FOCUS ON …
1. -make students feel T–S 2’
WARM-UP Teacher explains and presents shortly the comfortable S–S
programme of the activity -teacher introduces the topic
2 LEAD-IN Teacher asks for information about -Check previous knowledge T-S video 10
halloween, builds up 3 groups, give a name -organizes the activity projector
to each team. After that, students are
shown a short film about Halloween, the
story of Jack O’Lantern
3. PROJECT Presentation Of costumes, previously -develop creativity Individual 10’
ACTIVITY designed by students as project activity. -check discourse work
Students dress up as different Halloween -assisting teachers will choose
characters, presenting themselves the best costumes
4. COMPETITION Teacher sets on the board some pictures -check writing skills, with the Team work 20’
connected to Halloween, and compose a help of teammates
short essay about this custom. Story-tellers
present their short composition.
- find as many words as possible related to
 this celebration
-teacher gives the 3 groups worksheets (
word search, word jumble, riddles)
5. EVALUATION Teacher gives feedback to the 3 teams 5’
announcing the winner.
The best costume is rewarded.
6. LET’S PARTY! Students play universal children games -have fun Whole groups 30’
(dance with balloons, jump in sacks, run
with spoon, jumping)